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Yeah, anything that gets a rise out of the creators of Go is good in my book.

The guy still thinks computers have 64 KB of memory and we need to economize on the length of identifiers. Nothing he says or does should be taken seriously in this day.

He’d probably like an appreciation note if it was written with all vowels taken out.

Malbolge is great for replying to anyone who claims that since programming languages are Turing-complete, any one of them is fit for the job.

Such argument, very informative, wow. Maybe don’t attempt an argument if you don’t actually have anything to say.

How many millions did they give? I know of the one million for the inauguration. Do you think one million is much money for either Apple or Trump?

Tim Cook designed and delivered a custom award to Trump.

Which looked like a gold-plated plastic turd, but Trump likely can’t recognize that with his absence of taste. Apple so obviously could make something better-looking that I’ve had a solid chuckle seeing that shit, and my opinion of Apple hadn’t moved. In exchange for that piece of crap they’ve gotten Trump to lay his mitts off tariffs on what Apple needed, so sounds like a job well done to me. It’s not Apple’s business to topple an idiot that stupid USian public elected.

The touch bar is pretty good if a) most everyday shortcuts you use are on the modifiers and the alphanumeric keyboard instead of the f-keys, and b) you can put custom controls in the touch bar. Both of these are true with Macbook: there’s a third-party app for controlling the touch bar. E.g. I’ve put in it a button to handoff the Bluetooth headphones from the laptop to the phone or the other way around.

Also helps if you’re using an external keyboard, while the laptop is sitting on a stand. This way the touch bar is just an additional control surface.

But, if you use laptop as a stationary machine, you can just buy an external touch control. Though they’re probably pricey due to the small specialist market.

The touch bar worked well for me on a Macbook. Most of the hotkeys there use cmd+something instead of the f-keys, so I needed the f-keys with only a couple apps, namely Double Commander. But what’s better, there are apps to put custom controls into the touch bar. The most useful one for me was the button to hand off the Bluetooth headphones from the laptop to the phone or vice versa (via a bash script of mine). Plus I could also have app-specific custom buttons.

There’s a lighter band at the top of the screen on my phone, corresponding to the darker header area in the RedReader app for Reddit. Just from using that app every day. Though that seems to be kinda reverse burn-in, in that the rest of the screen became darker since I use the light colorscheme.

On the desktop, the taskbar alone would definitely burn in with my usage patterns. And probably also the tabs and the status bar in the editor.

Just to check, you know that this ‘sweet summer child’ is the one who came up with ‘enshittification’ in the first place? He’s been on this topic for decades now. But you think that your drive-by comment is smarter than the man who’s been sniffing out hidden trends all his career and was consistently ahead of the curve.

Coincidentally, Doctorow is the one who coined ‘enshittification’ originally.

that published article is a primary source.

It’s not a primary source, that’s the whole point. It’s a secondary source, which takes information from the primary source and publishes it with some degree of verification.

The whole ‘no primary sources’ thing is simple if one considers that Trump and Musk are the primary sources on their own doings.

Alternatively, “if you piss blood it’s a symptom of kidney issues”.

stationery, noun (usually uncountable, plural stationeries): writing materials, envelopes, office materials.

stationary, adjective (not comparable): not moving.